Dear friends:
As Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, I want to thank you for the warm welcome and to greet you, on the New Year.
Cuba is honored to be the first country in the Americas to establish diplomatic friendly relations with Mongolia 61 years ago and to have the only embassy of Latin America and the Caribbean in your great country. We are also honored to host in Havana the only embassy of Mongolia in my region.
Cuba highly appreciates the traditional support of your country in the United Nations against the 60 years old U.S. unilateral economic coercive measures.
Our two countries cooperate in several areas. We hold now in December the fourth round of political bilateral consultations and we also have cooperation in the international organizations.
Furthermore, we have signed this year memoranda of understanding between our chambers of commerce and the ministries of health.
Since 1963, more than 120 Mongolian professionals have graduated in our universities thanks to Cuban scholarships in different specialties. Mongolian and Cuban doctors and dentists graduated in Cuba are well known here and appreciated by you.
We have the common interest to expand our cooperation to sports like boxing and to tourism and to widen our existing collaboration in health, biopharmaceuticals, education and agriculture. with the view to improve the quality of life and prosperity of our two peoples.
Cuba has fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to 86 percent of our population with 3 Cuban made vaccines, ranking second in the world in this regard, and it is first country in the world to vaccinate children from 2 years of age with its own vaccines. We are ready to share that achievement for the benefit of our friends of Mongolia.
For the next year, I wish you good health, prosperity and new successes and happy parties.
Thank you very much.